12. Now I, the Lord God of Israel, will destroy both Jerusalem and Judah! People will hear about it but won't believe it.
13. Jerusalem is as sinful as Ahab and the people of Samaria were. So I will wipe out Jerusalem and be done with it, just as someone wipes water off a plate and turns it over to dry.
14. I will even get rid of my people who survive. They will be defeated and robbed by their enemies.
15. My people have done what I hate and have not stopped making me angry since their ancestors left Egypt.
16. Manasseh was guilty of causing the people of Judah to sin and disobey the Lord. He also refused to protect innocent people—he even let so many of them be killed that their blood filled the streets of Jerusalem.
17. Everything else Manasseh did while he was king, including his terrible sins, is written in The History of the Kings of Judah.
18. He died and was buried in Uzza Garden near his palace, and his son Amon became king.
19. Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king of Judah, and he ruled from Jerusalem for two years. His mother Meshullemeth was the daughter of Haruz from Jotbah.
20. Amon disobeyed the Lord, just as his father Manasseh had done.
21. Amon worshipped the idols Manasseh had made and
22. refused to be faithful to the Lord, the God his ancestors had worshipped.
23. Some of Amon's officials plotted against him and killed him in his palace.
24-26. He was buried in Uzza Garden. Soon after that, the people of Judah killed the murderers of Amon, then they made his son Josiah king.Everything else Amon did while he was king is written in The History of the Kings of Judah.